Undergraduate applications to Columbia College increased by 33% this year resulting in a record-low 6.4% admission rate to the Class of 2015. The...
Harvard Accepts Record Low 6.2% of Applicants to the Class of 2015
Harvard College offered admission to a record low 6.2% of the applicants to the class of 2015. Accepted students were selected from a pool...
Facebook Warning: Admissions Officers Check Out Students
College-bound students, beware: College college admissions officers may be looking you up on Facebook. Make sure what they see is suitable for viewing! According...
Harvard & Princeton Restore Early Admissions for Fall 2012 Class
Harvard College announced that it will restore its early admissions program starting this fall, four years after it eliminated the option on the grounds...
63 Colleges Offering the Best Financial Aid
US New and World Report published its 2011 list of colleges that award the most generous financial aid packages. According to the new U.S....
Matching Career Options with Personality and Interests
Many high school students (and older people too) are interested in learning about careers that fit with their personality type, interests, strengths & weaknesses...
AP Pass Rates Decline as More Students Enroll in Advanced Placement Courses
A record number of 2010 high school graduates passed Advanced Placement exams, but an even greater percentage received the lowest level possible score, according...
Resource Recommendations for Juniors and Sophomores
As a college consultant, I am frequently asked about college guidebooks and SAT / ACT prep.
Inside the Admissions Office
This entertaining tongue-in-cheek video, How Centre College Evaluates Your Application, offers good insight into what happens behind the scenes in a college admissions office....
Early Admission Data – 2011
Early decision and early action applications for the Class of 2015 surged at Vanderbilt, George Washington, Penn, Northwestern, Bucknell, Bowdoin, Lehigh and Dartmouth...
Kiplinger 2011 Best Value Public Colleges
Kiplinger has published its 2011 list of best value public colleges. While I usually look at college rankings with a certain degree of skepticism,...
Favorite College & Scholarship Guides and Test Prep Books
Whether you’re researching colleges and universities, preparing for the ACT or SAT, searching for scholarships, or trying to demystify the college admissions process, there...
50 Colleges With the Best and Worst Professors
Lynn O’Shaughnessy has published her list of 50 Colleges With the Best and Worst Professors. The lists -- 25 Colleges With the Best...
From Hogwarts to Brown
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have have varied educational backgrounds. Watson, who portrays Hermione Granger is a student at Brown University...
Early Applications Up at Georgetown, Chicago and Northwestern
Early action applications rose nearly 8% according to Georgetown Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions received more...
Stanford Reports Early Applications Up 7%
The Stanford Daily reported that the school's admissions office had received approximately 5,950 applications under its restrictive early-action program, a 7% increase from 2009.
Penn Early Decision Applications Increase 17 Percent
U Penn received 17 percent more early decision applications this year, approximately 4,500 — up from 3,851 last fall.
MIT Reports ~14% Rise in Early Action Applications
MIT has received nearly 6,500 undergraduate early action applications to the Class of 2015, an increase of about 14 percent over last year...
Don’t Stalk the Admissions Officer
The Choice, a New York Times blog, reviewed two recently published college admissions books -- Don't Stalk the Admissions Officer: How to...
Legacies Have Leg Up in College Admissions
Ever wonder about legacy preferences in college admissions? Richard D. Kahlenberg’s book “Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions" examines...
The Early Decision Advantage
How much of a better chance does a student have by applying early decision? "Usually a lot better."
About Lynn Lubell
Lynn Radlauer Lubell is the Publisher of InLikeMe.com, an internationally renowned website for college-bound students, parents and guidance counselors, and the Founder of Admission by Design, an educational consultancy.
A graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School, Lynn completed the IECA's Principles and Practices Institute for Educational Consultants and has broad expertise in college admission strategy and planning.
Lynn served on the MIT Educational Council for ten years interviewing hundreds of undergraduate applicants.
Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Admission by Design, consults with students and families in South Florida and beyond.